Test 17 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return o…
★★★ «About a dozen» weasels lay on the floor. If Mole had handcuffs for 4 animals each, how many sets did he need for 12?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ weasels, Mole, many sets · What happens: lay, have, need · To what, where: floor, handcuffs
This is test 17 · ★★★ of lesson 71 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
Sentence 1: ★★★ «About a dozen» weasels lay on the floor.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 weasels | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 dozen | punct |
| 5 | About | about | ADV | _ | 7 dozen | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dozen | det |
| 7 | dozen | dozen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 ★ | list |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| 9 | weasels | weasel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lay | nsubj |
| 10 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 floor | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 floor | det |
| 13 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lay | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | ★ weasels | the floor | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on floor=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Sentence 2: If Mole had handcuffs for 4 animals each, how many sets did he need for 12?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 had | mark |
| 2 | Mole | Mole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | handcuffs | handcuff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 animals | case |
| 6 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 animals | nummod |
| 7 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obl |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 had | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 need | punct |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 many | advmod |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sets | amod |
| 12 | sets | set | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 need | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 need | aux |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 need | nsubj |
| 15 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 12 | case |
| 17 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 need | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Mole | handcuffs | for 4 animals | tree rules | |||
| 2 | need | past · do-support | many sets | for 12 | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Twelve sets of handcuffs, one for each
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 sets | nummod |
| 2 | sets | set | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 handcuffs | case |
| 4 | handcuffs | handcuff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sets | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 sets | appos |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 each | case |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 one | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
3
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Four sets, one for each animal in the hall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 sets | nummod |
| 2 | sets | set | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 sets | appos |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 animal | case |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 animal | det |
| 7 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 one | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hall | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hall | det |
| 10 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 animal | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
1
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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